2049 results about "Demulsifier" patented technology

Dendritic polymers with enhanced amplification and interior functionality are disclosed. These dendritic polymers are made by use of fast, reactive ring-opening chemistry (or other fast reactions) combined with the use of branch cell reagents in a controlled way to rapidly and precisely build dendritic structures, generation by generation, with cleaner chemistry, often single products, lower excesses of reagents, lower levels of dilution, higher capacity method, more easily scaled to commercial dimensions, new ranges of materials, and lower cost. The dendritic compositions prepared have novel internal functionality, greater stability (e.g., thermal stability and less or no reverse Michael's reaction), and reach encapsulation surface densities at lower generations. Unexpectedly, these reactions of polyfunctional branch cell reagents with polyfunctional cores do not create cross-linked materials. Such dendritic polymers are useful as demulsifiers for oil / water emulsions, wet strength agents in the manufacture of paper, proton scavengers, polymers, nanoscale monomers, calibration standards for electron microscopy, making size selective membranes, and agents for modifying viscosity in aqueous formulations such as paint. When these dendritic polymers have a carried material associated with their surface and / or interior, then these dendritic polymers have additional properties for carrying materials due to the unique characteristics of the dendritic polymer, such as for drug delivery, transfection, and diagnostics.

A composite of a well treatment agent adsorbed onto a water-insoluble adsorbent is useful in the treatment of oil and gas wells and may be introduced, as a well treatment fluid, with a carrier fluid. The water-insoluble adsorbent may be activated carbon, silica particulate, precipitated silica, zeolite, diatomaceous earth, ground walnut shells, fuller's earth and organic synthetic high molecular weight water-insoluble adsorbents. Suitable as the well treatment agent are scale inhibitors, corrosion inhibitors, paraffin inhibitors, salt inhibitors, gas hydrate inhibitors, asphaltene inhibitors, oxygen scavengers, biocides, foaming agent, emulsion breakers and surfactants.

Provided is a method for purifying a biodiesel fuel while completely preventing or greatly reducing generation of waste water. The present invention relates to a method for purifying a biodiesel fuel characterized by applying an electric field to or heating a crude biodiesel fuel and a method for purifying a biodiesel fuel characterized by adding water (preferably containing a demulsifier such as an inorganic calcium salt or a magnesium salt) to a crude biodiesel fuel to form W / O emulsion, and breaking the emulsion by application of an electric field or heating, etc.

Fluid producing or injecting wells may be treated with a water-in-oil emulsion for the removal or inhibition of unwanted particulates, including pipe dope, asphaltenes and paraffins. In addition, such emulsions are effective in the displacement of oil base drilling muds and / or residues from such muds from wells. The emulsion may also be used to break the interfacial and / or rheological properties of oil base mud and synthetic oil base mud filter cakes, and act as a demulsifier to break the water-in-oil emulsion present in such oil base and synthetic oil base muds. The water-in-oil emulsions may optionally contain a dispersing agent as well as a surfactant.

The invention discloses a preparation method of a graphene / polymer nano composite material, which is characterized by comprising the following steps: adding 0.1-30 parts by weight of graphite oxide into 10-3000 parts by weight of water, and dispersing and exfoliating by carrying out ultrasonic dispersion (the power is 50-500W, and the frequency is 10-100000Hz) at 10-100 DEG C for 15 minutes-5 hours or mechanical lapping for 15 minutes-5 hours or mechanical stirring for 1-48 hours to obtain a graphene oxide water solution; adding the graphene oxide water solution into 100 parts by weight of polymer emulsion of which the solid content is 10-70%; continuing the ultrasonic or mechanical stirring to carry out uniform mixing; demulsifying by adding 1-100 parts by weight of 5-100% demulsifier toobtain a graphene oxide / polymer granular suspension; adding 0.1-100 parts by weight of reducer into the graphene oxide / polymer granular suspension, reducing at 20-100 DEG C for 1-72 hours, filtering,and drying in a drying oven at 20-100 DEG C for 2-72 hours or drying in a vacuum drying oven at 20-120 DEG C under a vacuum degree of 0.1-0.01 MPa for 2-48 hours, thereby obtaining the graphene / polymer nano composite material.

The invention provides an oily sludge recycling and innocent comprehensive treatment process, which comprises the following four steps of: 1, pretreating oily sludge: adding water into the oil sludge, heating and stirring to form fluidized sludge, and separating in a stainless steel screen; 2, conditioning the oily sludge, adding a demulsifier and a flocculant into the separated fluidized sludge for conditioning the oily sludge; 3, performing centrifugal separation on three phases of the oily sludge: introducing separated oil into an oil-water separation system for recovering crude oil, conveying separated water to the oily sludge pretreatment step for recycling, drying the separated residual oily sludge, and solid impurities and floating slag which are separated in the oily sludge pretreatment, and introducing the dried substances into a rotary kiln incinerator; and 4, performing mixed combustion on the residual oily sludge and biomass, performing high temperature incineration treatment after the residual oily sludge, the separated solid impurities and floating slag, and the biomass are mixed in a rotary kiln to remove the secondary pollution of the oily sludge, and recovering afterheat from high temperature flue gas.

Dendritic polymers with enhanced amplification and interior functionality are disclosed. These dendritic polymers are made by use of fast, reactive ring-opening chemistry (or other fast reactions) combined with the use of branch cell reagents in a controlled way to rapidly and precisely build dendritic structures, generation by generation, with cleaner chemistry, often single products, lower excesses of reagents, lower levels of dilution, higher capacity method, more easily scaled to commercial dimensions, new ranges of materials, and lower cost. The dendritic compositions prepared have novel internal functionality, greater stability (e.g., thermal stability and less or no reverse Michael's reaction), and reach encapsulation surface densities at lower generations. Unexpectedly, these reactions of polyfunctional branch cell reagents with polyfunctional cores do not create cross-linked materials. Such dendritic polymers are useful as demulsifiers for oil / water emulsions, wet strength agents in the manufacture of paper, proton scavengers, polymers, nanoscale monomers, calibration standards for electron microscopy, making size selective membranes, and agents for modifying viscosity in aqueous formulations such as paint. When these dendritic polymers have a carried material associated with their surface and / or interior, then these dendritic polymers have additional properties for carrying materials due to the unique characteristics of the dendritic polymer, such as for drug delivery, transfection, and diagnostics.

Method of treating a subterranean formation, comprising (A) injecting down a well bore into the formation an admixture of (a) an emulsion having an internal aqueous phase comprising a water-soluble oil of gas field chemical or an aqueous dispersion of a water-dispersible oil or gas field chemical and an external oil phase comprising a liquid hydrocarbon and an oil-soluble surfactant and (b) a demulsifier comprising a solution of a surfactant having a cloud point temperature of above 40° C. Alternatively, the method comprises separately injecting down a well bore into the formation emulsion (a) and demulsifier (b) and generating an admixture of emulsion (a) and demulsifier (b) within the formation.

The invention relates to a crude oil demulsifier, and discloses a natural polysaccharide macromolecule-modified crude oil demulsifier. The demulsifier is prepared by adopting the following operation steps: (1) conducting halogenation modification, carboxylation modification, amination modification, formylation modification, or isocyanic acid esterification modification on polyethylene glycol monomethyl ether; (2) preparing glycidyl dimethyl alkyl ammonium chloride; (3) preparing quaternized polysaccharide; and (4) reacting the modified polyethylene glycol monomethyl ether with quaternized polysaccharide to obtain a product, namely the natural polysaccharide macromolecule-modified crude oil demulsifier. According to the crude oil demulsifier, as the raw material, the natural polysaccharide macromolecule compound has multiple advantages of being wide in source, natural, non-toxic, sustainable, good in usage safety and the like; and the prepared demulsifier has good demulsifying and dewatering effects; in addition, the molecules of the demulsifier contain a great deal of groups of hydroxyl and the like, which have certain chelating capability to metal ions, thus being capable of removing a certain amount of metal ions while demulsifying.

The invention relates to particular orthoester based polymers as well as the use of specific orthoester based polymers as a demulsifier for water / oil emulsions. Products suitable for use according to the invention have the formula (I), wherein R1 is hydrogen or a hydrocarbyl group with 1-4 carbon atoms, R2, R3, and R4 are, independently, a group comprising C3-C4 alkyleneoxy groups and / or ethyleneoxy groups in any order, and an end group Y, which is, independently, hydrogen, a hydrocarbyl group with 1-30 carbon atoms, a group —(CH2)zNR5R6 or —(CH2)zN+R5R6R7, wherein each of R5, R6, and R7 is, independently, an alkyl group with 1-22 carbon atoms or —CH2CH2OH, and z is 2 or 3, provided that at least one of the groups R2, R3, and R4 comprises at least one block of at least on then average 4 alkyleneoxy groups with 3 and / or 4 carbon atoms, and provided that if Y is hydrogen, then at least one of n and m is a number of 1-100, or a di- or polycondensate of the polymer via free hydroxyl groups in R2, R3 or R4.

A mobile apparatus and method for recycling an invert emulsion based drilling fluid, in which the invert emulsion based drilling fluid includes an oleaginous component and an aqueous component. The apparatus includes an emulsion breaking tank, a water treatment tank, a filter press, and hydrocarbon filters. The method includes: mixing said invert emulsion drilling fluid with a emulsion breaker, wherein the emulsion breaker is a mixture of an alkyl glucoside and an alkane sulfonate; and separating the oleaginous component of the invert emulsion drilling fluid from the aqueous component of the invert emulsion drilling fluid. The method preferably utilizes an emulsion breaker that is a combination of an anionic surfactant, a nonionic surfactant and an alkyl polyglycoside surfactant.

A method for cleaning oil wells to increase the flow of oil thereof by use of a unique cleaning emulsion comprising of water, hydrocarbon solvent, terpene hydrocarbon material, demulsifier, detergent, and optionally an acid. This one step method provides for the simultaneously cleaning / removal of asphaltene and / or paraffin and scale at a wide range of temperatures. This method can be used alone or with the assistance of a wash tool which is a combination pressure and surge wash tool having a nipple assembly, or a hydro self-rotating nozzle wash tool.

The invention relates to a microemulsion heavy wax crystal emulsifying dispersant applied to an oil well for tertiary oil recovery, and is mainly used for solving the problem that the oil production rate is influenced due to the high return pressure and the short thermal washing period of the oil recovery well caused by that serious wax precipitations are generated by the oil well which contains thickened oil and is high in polymer flooding and viscosity. The emulsifying dispersant is prepared from the following components by weight percent: 1% to 3% of high-molecular polymer wax inhibitor, 13% to 25% of organic aromatic solvent, 1% to 3.5% of emulsifying agent, 8% to 12% of sulfonate, 10% to 12.5% of alcohol, 10% to 20% of demulsifier and 25% to 35% of water. The emulsifying dispersant has the dual effects of eliminating and preventing the waxy bitumen colloid precipitations with long molecular chains or high carbon number in crude oil from being precipitated, so that the wall sticking quantity of condensate oil is greatly decreased; the running load of the oil well is reduced; and the well washing period is prolonged. Thus, the oil production rate is improved.

The present invention is one kind of thick oil demulsifier and its preparation process, and belongs to the field of petrochemical technology. The present invention features that phenol-amine resin as the initial material is block polymerized with epoxy propane ad epoxy ethane under the action of catalyst to obtain stereo netted macromolecular polyether as the thick oil demulsifier. The polyether as the thick oil demulsifier may be further chain expanded for even high demulsifying effect. The thick oil demulsifier can reach the oil-water interface fast to lower the elasticity and viscosity of the interface film, speed the aggregation of liquid drops and demulsify effectively. The thick oil demulsifier has simple preparation process, is suitable for industrial production, and may be used in the efficient dewatering of oil field produced liquid with different water contents.

The invention discloses a non-linear associated water soluble quadripolymer as well as a preparation method and use thereof, comprising: adding 20 parts of acrylamide, 1-20 parts of nionic monomer or / and cationic monomer, 0.1-15 parts of macromonomer, 0.05-10 parts of hydrophobic monomer, 0.1-50 parts of surfactant and 60-1000 parts of deionized water to a three-necked reaction flask, adjusting the pH to be 3-9, adding 0.002-1 part of initiator (persulphate) at 30-75 DEG C after introducing N2 for 30min, reacting for 8-36h to obtain the quadripolymer PACH, diluting with water, and obtaining concentrated PACH solution. The macromonomer with a long chain and the hydrophobic monomer with a molecular association function are simultaneously introduced in a copolymer PACH, which can obtain the best synergistic viscosifying between rigid conformation of a molecular chain and molecular association and salt resistance. The non-linear associated water soluble quadripolymer is obtained. The copolymer is prepared into aqueous solution with the mass concentration of 0.2-3g / l and the surfactant concentration of 0.01-2mmol / l, added to a mixing vessel with a stirring device and evenly stirred at the room temperature to obtain a viscosified, salt-resistant and shear-resistant polymer oil displacement agent. The PACH has dual functions of a viscosifier and a high molecular surfactant; minute amount of a low molecular surfactant is added to the PACH solution, thus improving the apparent viscosity of the solution, reducing the surface tension of solution and the water-oil interfacial tension, and being beneficial to improving the crude oil recovery ratio. A copolymer PABE is prepared into the aqueous solution with the mass concentration of 0.05-7% to obtain high molecular surfactant with excellent surface activity, and the high molecular surfactant is used as an emulsifier, a demulsifier, a solubilizer and a wetting agent.

A thickened oil emulsifying viscosity reducer consists of anion surface activator, non-ionic-anion surface activator, demulsifier and water in proportion by 1:0.1-50:0.01-20 and water content is 0.2-5000 times of the sum of a, b and c. Anion surface activator comprises sodium salt and calcium salt of petroleum sulfoacid salt methyl condensate and sulfonated lignin; non-ionic-anion surface activator is chosen organic phosphate salt, sulfuric ester salt , carboxylate and sulfosalt of alkylphenol or fatty alcohol-polyoxyethylene ether; demulsifier is copolymer of alkyl ammonium halide cation demulsifier, polyethylene glycol polyoxytrimethylene polylol ether non-ionic demulsifier or polyethylene glycol polyoxytrimethylene polyethylene polyamines block. It has strong emulsifying ability and low thickened oil viscosity,

The present invention relates to a hydrocarbon oil demetallization agent, its preparation method and application method. Said hydrocarbon oil demetallization agent comprises demetallization agent, demulsifier and demetallization adjuvant. Its application method includes the following steps: fully mixing hydrocarbon oil demetallization agent or its aqueous solution and hydrocarbon oil according to a certain ratio and adopting conventional electric desalting process to make treatment so as to obtain demetallized hydrocarbon oil. At the same time of desalting it can remove other metal ions of calcium, magnesium, iron, vanadium and nickel, etc. from hydrocarbon oil, so that its oil and water separation effect is good.

A copolymer useful as a demulsifier or water clarifier may be prepared by polymerizing at least one aromatic monomer having one or more polymerizable double bonds; at least one oleophilic monomer having one or more polymerizable double bonds; at least one ionizable monomer having a polymerizable double bond; and at least one hydrophilic monomer having one or more polymerizable double bonds, under polymerization conditions sufficient to prepare a copolymer. The copolymer may, in some embodiments, be prepared and used as a latex.

A novel method for breaking the viscosity of an aqueous phase thickened with preferably hydrophilic polymers in the exploration and production of mineral oil and / or natural gas is proposed. For this purpose, the breaking is carried out via the formation of a low-viscosity emulsion, with water as the continuous phase, this emulsion being formed by the addition of at least one surface-active component to a system which consists of the thickened drilling fluid and an oil phase which is crude oil present in the reservoir and / or oil introduced into the reservoir. Solubilizers between oil phase and water phase and in particular non-ionic surfactants, cationic surfactants and / or amphoteric surfactants are used as a preferred surface-active component. In addition to the surface-active component, it is possible to use further components, which are demulsifiers, non-emulsifiers, co-surfactants or surface tension modifiers. With the aid of this method, with the simultaneous presence of an oil phase, the aqueous phase can be displaced as a low-viscosity system and finally discharged at the surface, extremely effective cleaning of the well being associated therewith. With regard to the cost-efficiency and from an environmental point of view, the use of chemicals can be completely dispensed with.

The invention relates to a preparation method for a chitosan natural polymer modified crude oil desalting demulsifier. The method comprises the following steps: 1) modifying polyethylene glycol monomethyl ether by halogenating; 2) preparing glycidyl dimethyl alkyl ammonium chloride; 3) preparing quaternized carboxy alkyl chitosan; 4) causing the modified polyethylene glycol monomethyl ether to react with the quaternized carboxy alkyl chitosan, thereby obtaining a target product, polyethylene glycol monomethyl ether grafted quaternized carboxy alkyl chitosan. According to the invention, the chitosan natural high-molecular compound is taken as the raw material and has the advantages of wide resource, naturality, non-toxicity, sustainability, excellent biological compatibility of products, degradability, and the like. The demulsifier prepared according to the invention has excellent demulsification dewatering effect; the molecule of the demulsifier contains a large amount of carboxy alkyl groups and quaternary ammonium salt groups and the electronegative ions, including metal cation, naphthene acid radicals, and surfaces are electronegative grains and have strong combining capacity, so that the demulsifier has the capacities of demulsifying while removing oil-soluble salt.

Water may be removed from a biofuel or biofuel intermediate by using a demulsifier. The demulsifier includes the product of oxyalkylating a resin prepared from a formulation including a phenol and a compound selected from the group consisting of an aldehyde, a diamine a polyamine and mixtures thereof. The demulsifier may also be used with admixtures of biofuels, biofuel intermediates, or biofuel feedstocks with conventional hydrocarbons.

A method of clarifying oily waste water comprising adding to the waste water an effective clarifying amount of one or more demulsifiers selected from the group consisting of dendritic polyamines, dendritic polyamidoamines and hyperbranched polyethyleneimines and the reaction products thereof with gluconolactone, alkylene oxides, salts of 3-chloro-2-hydroxypropanesulfonic acid, alkyl halides, benzyl halides and dialkyl sulfates.

The invention relates to a preparation method of a polyether-grafted chitosan derivative crude oil desalting demulsifier. The preparation method comprises the following specific steps: firstly, performing formylation modification on polyethylene glycol monoethylether; secondly, preparing glycidyl dimethyl alkyl ammonium chloride; thirdly, preparing quaternarization carboxyalkyl chitosan; fourthly, enabling formylation modified polyethylene glycol monoethylether to react with carboxy alkyl chitosan to obtain the polyether-grafted chitosan derivative crude oil desalting demulsifier. The polyether-grafted chitosan derivative crude oil desalting demulsifier disclosed by the invention is prepared by taking chitosannatural polymeric compounds as raw materials, and has the advantages of wide sources, naturalness, no toxicity, sustainability, good biocompatibility of a product, degradability and the like. The prepared demulsifier is good in demulsifying and dehydrating effect; meanwhile, a demulsifying molecule contains a large amount of carboxyalkyl groups and quaternary ammonium salt groups which have strong combining capacity to metal cation, ions with negative electricity such as naphthenic acid radicals as well as particles of which the surfaces are electronegative, so the polyether-grafted chitosan derivative crude oil desalting demulsifier has capacity of removing oil-soluble salts while demulsifying.

The invention relates to a preparation method of an efficient crude oil desalting demulsifier. The preparation method comprises the following specific steps: (1) performing isocyanic acid esterification modification on methoxy polyethylene glycol; (2) preparing glycidyl dimethyl alkylammonium chloride; (3) preparing quaternized carboxyalkyl chitosan; (4) modifying the methoxy polyethylene glycol and the quaternized carboxyalkyl chitosan for reaction to obtain a target product, namely, methoxy polyethylene glycol-grafted quaternized carboxyalkyl chitosan. By taking chitosan type natural macromolecular compounds as raw materials, the efficient crude oil desalting demulsifier has many advantages of wide availability, nature, nontoxicity, sustainability, high biocompatibility, degradability and the like. The prepared demulsifier is good in demulsifying and dehydration effect; meanwhile, molecules of the demulsifier contain a large quantity of carboxy alkyl groups and quaternary ammonium salt groups, so that the demulsifier is extremely high in combination capacity for negatively charged ions such as metal cations and naphthenic acid radicals, and particles with electronegativity on the surfaces, and can remove oil-soluble salt during dehumidification.

Fluid producing or injecting wells may be treated with a water-in-oil emulsion for the removal or inhibition of unwanted particulates, including pipe dope, asphaltenes and paraffins. In addition, such emulsions are effective in the displacement of oil base drilling muds and / or residues from such muds from wells. The emulsion may also be used to break the interfacial and / or rheological properties of oil base mud and synthetic oil base mud filter cakes, and act as a demulsifier to break the water-in-oil emulsion present in such oil base and synthetic oil base muds. The water-in-oil emulsions may optionally contain a dispersing agent as well as a surfactant.

The invention relates to a preparation method of a double-ion type crude oil desalting demulsifier. The preparation method specifically comprises the following steps: (1) carrying out esterification modification on polyethylene glycol monomethyl ether; (2) preparing glycidyl dimethyl alkyl ammonium chloride; (3) preparing quaternary ammonium carboxymethyl chitosan; (4) making the modified polyethylene glycol monomethyl ether react with the quaternary ammonium carboxymethyl chitosan to obtain a polyethylene glycol monomethyl ether grafted quaternary ammonium carboxymethyl chitosan. The double-ion type crude oil desalting demulsifier takes natural macromolecular compounds of chitosan as raw materials, thereby having many advantages of wide sources, naturalness, no toxicity, sustainability, good product bio-compatibility and degradation and the like. The prepared demulsifier is good in demulsification and dehydration effects, furthermore, demulsifier molecules contain a large number of carboxyl alkyl groups and quaternary ammonium salt groups, so that the demulsifier has a very strong binding capacity for negatively charged ions such as metal cations, naphthenic acid radicals and particles of which the surfaces are electronegative, thereby further having the removal ability for oil soluble salts while performing demulsification.

The invention relates to a method for preparing comb-shaped polymer crude oil desalting demulsifier. The method comprises the following steps: (1) performing acrylatioed modification on methoxy polyethylene glycol; (2) preparing glycidyl dimethyl alkyl ammonium chloride; (3) preparing quaternized carboxyalkyl chitosan; (4) reacting modified methoxy polyethylene glycol with quaternized carboxyalkyl chitosan to obtain the target product demulsifier. The demulsifier is prepared by using chitosan naturalpolymer compounds as raw materials, and has the advantages of wide source, nature, no toxicity, sustainability, good product biocompatibility, degradability and the like. The prepared demulsifier has good demulsification and dehydration effect since the molecular structure is a comb-shaped polymer formed by simultaneously grafting a plurality of linear branched chains on a main chain, and has a strong binding capability on metal cations, naphthenate radicals and other negatively charged ions and particles which are electronegative on surfaces since a great amount of carboxyalkyl groups and quaternary ammonium salt groups on the molecules. Therefore, the demulsifier has capabilities of demulsifying and removing oil-soluble salt.

The invention relates to a preparation method of a polyelectrolyte-type crude oil-desalting demulsifier. The preparation method comprises the following specific steps: (1) performing amination modification on methoxypolyethylene glycol; (2) preparing glycidyl dimethyl alkyl ammonium chloride; (3) preparing quaternized carboxyalkyl chitosan; (4) carrying out a reaction between the modified methoxypolyethylene glycol and the quaternized carboxyalkyl chitosan to obtain a target product methoxypolyethylene glycol-grafted quaternized carboxyalkyl chitosan. The polyelectrolyte-type crude oil-desalting demulsifier takes a natural macromolecule chitosan compound as a raw material, and has the advantages of wide sources, naturalness, non-toxicity, sustainability, good product biocompatibility, biodegradability and the like. The prepared demulsifier has good demulsifying and dehydrating effects; a demulsifier molecule contains a large number of carboxyalkyl groups and quaternary ammonium groups, which have very strong capacity of bonding metal cations, negatively-charged ions such as naphthenic acid radicals, and particles with negative charges on the surfaces, so that besides the demulsifying capability, the demulsifier also has the capability of removing oil-soluble salts.

Methods of treatment of fluids produced by an oil or gas well following a stimulation operation, allowing separation from the fluids and re-injection of oil and gas hydrocarbons in a production pipeline under pressure, and allowing achievement of suitable quality for the residual fluids compatible with their rejection, for example into the sea, including the following three elements; neutralization of the fluids by mixing with a high pH chemical, until the resulting pH reaches a level compatible with the equipment and pipes; use of optimized emulsion breakers in a phase separator, selected for best results with the fluids produced by the well, to accelerate the separation of oil from the fluids, and to lower the residual oil content in the fluids to levels compatible with environmental regulations; and use of a multi-phase pump to pump the oil and gas hydrocarbons produced and reinject them in a pipeline under pressure.

It has been discovered that biodegradable and non-toxic chelant compositions can perform multiple beneficial functions in an aqueous fracturing fluid through the chelation of ions. Some of the multiple functions include various combinations of the following: demulsifier, demulsifier enhancer, scale inhibitor, crosslink delay agent, crosslinked gel stabilizer, enzyme breaker stabilizer, and the like. Some of the chelants used in the compositions include, but are not necessarily limited to, sodium polyaspartate; sodium iminodisuccinate; disodium hydroxyethyleneiminodiacetate (Na2HEIDA); sodium gluconate; sodium glucoheptonate; sugar alcohols; monosaccharides; disaccharides; and mixtures thereof.